Combination cutting board and towel drying member



Patented Mar. 17, 1942 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE COMBINATION CUTTING BOARD AND TOWEL DRYIN G MEMBER.

Christopher L. Hardwick, Cleveland, Tenn.

Application October 9, 1940, Serial No; 360,505

(Cl. S12-176) 1 Claim.

f stove or range.

Another object of the invention is to provide a cutting board and towel dryer in which the towels being dried are protected from spattering grease and the like by the cutting board.

Other and more specic objects and advantages of the invention will be apparent as the' specification is considered in connection with the accompanying drawing. in which:

Figure 1 is a perspective View of a gas range showing the invention applied thereto; and

Figure 2 is a sectional view of the board and rack showing steel runners for holding the device in place.

Referring more particularly to the drawing I denotes a conventional gas range having the customary utility compartments 2 and 3 at opposite sides thereof and also provided with the centrally disposed top and bottom baking and broiling compartments 4 and 5 respectively. The front openings to these compartments are normally closed by the respective doors 6, shown in Figure 1.

Arranged in the upper end of the compartment 2, are a pair of horizontally disposed steel runners I6, one at each side of the compartment. These runners are suitably secured either to the front frame 'i or to the side walls I8 of the compartment 2 and are sufficiently spaced below the top of the front frame 'l to slidably receive and support a combined cutting board and towel drier 8, in an obvious manner. The board 8, preferably of wood is formed with a rectangular groove 5, in its upper face, which functions to catch such liquids as may be spattered or spilled on the board during cooking operations or which may result from the use of the board forthe cutting of fruits and vegetables.

Attached to the bottom face of the board 8,

as by screws I0, are a pair of spaced substantial? ly U-shaped metal strips or racks I I, from which towels I2 and the like are adapted to be hung. As the compartment 2 is substantially co-extensive in height and depth with corresponding dimensions of the range I, and the board 8 being mounted in the top of the4 heated compartment 2, it follows that towels and the like can be suspended at full length from the racksll, for

maximum drying eifect. It should also be noted that while the compartment 2 is effectively heated by conducted heat from the broiling and baking ovens 4 and 5, there is no danger of overheating because there is no direct heat communication between these ovens and the utility compart- Y ment 2. y n

The member 8, in addition to functioning as a cutting board, serves as a cover or guard for the towels or other articles suspended therefrom y both While the board is being used for cutting such articles of food as lemons and when the rack is being manipulated in to and out Vof the compartment during cooking operations.

Having thus kdescribed my invention, what I* claim is:

A cabinet having a relatively deep rectangular 'y heated compartment, a substantiallyjflat cutting board slidably mounted in the upper end of said compartment, a pair of towel racks suspended from and extending longitudinally of the bottom of said board and equally spaced from its side edges, said boardextending substantially from the front to the rear and from one side to the other of said compartment, said cutting board formed with a groove in its top surface extending substantially thefull length thereof and therearound and adapted to prevent liquids from owing off said board onto towels carried by said rack. v

CHRISTOPHER L. HARDWICK. 

